A Hawaii Yoga Instructor Who Was Missing In A Forest For More Than Two Weeks Was Found Alive

"Can you fucking believe it? We fucking found her. We never gave up."

Stephanie K. Baer

Kate Hudson Was Destined For Hollywood Greatness. Then She Pivoted To Leggings.

When Kate Hudson’s film career plateaued, she did what more and more Hollywood women have done: cashed out her image with an incredibly successful lifestyle brand.

Anne Helen Petersen

The Director Of US Citizenship And Immigration Services Is Resigning As Trump Continues His Purge

L. Francis Cissna’s departure is the latest high-profile shake up at the Department of Homeland Security in recent weeks.

Hamed Aleaziz

“He Can’t Take My Freedom”: Read The Powerful Statement Jayme Closs Wrote About Her Abductor

The 13-year-old Wisconsin girl’s emotional statement was read in court before her kidnapper, Jake Patterson, was sentenced to life in prison.

Tasneem Nashrulla

A Beloved Mail Carrier Retired And The Whole Neighborhood Turned Out To Say Goodbye

After 20 years on the same route, hundreds of people threw a party to send off Floyd Martin.

Otillia Steadman

Facebook Removed Over 2 Billion Fake Accounts, But The Problem Is Getting Worse

“I find this an odd time for Facebook to publicly pat themselves on the back.”

Craig Silverman

Jake Patterson Was Sentenced To Life In Prison For Kidnapping Wisconsin Teen Jayme Closs After Killing Her Parents

Patterson murdered James and Denise Closs and abducted 13-year-old Jayme Closs for 88 days before she escaped. The judge told him he was "the embodiment of evil."

Tasneem Nashrulla

21 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week

From the new restrictive abortion laws across the US to the destructive fury of a tornado in Jefferson City, Missouri, these are the most striking and memorable pictures from this past week.

Gabriel H. Sanchez

Opinion: Corruption Needs To Be A Kitchen Table Issue In 2020. Start With Betsy DeVos.

The education secretary is a comically unqualified billionaire who embodies how money buys political power. And she isn't being held to account.

Jeff Hauser

Missouri's Governor Has Signed A Law Criminalizing Abortions After 8 Weeks

It contains no exception for rape or incest, and any doctor performing an abortion after 8 weeks could face 5–15 years in prison.

Amber Jamieson

“Booksmart” Has A Blind Spot When It Comes To Class

Olivia Wilde's girl-centric Gen Z comedy is gloriously frank when it comes to sexuality and substances, but it’s less interested in its own class tensions.

Alison Willmore

A College Student Is No Longer Enrolled At School After A Video Showing A Group Of White Students Using The N-Word Went Viral

After BuzzFeed News contacted Monmouth University, a spokesperson said the student was “immediately contacted” by an official and “is no longer enrolled at the university.”

Tanya Chen

The Live-Action "Sonic" Movie's Release Is Being Delayed So They Can Redesign The Character's Look

When the film's first trailer dropped last month, angry fans criticized Sonic's design — and his humanlike teeth.

Michael Blackmon

Season 2 Of "Killing Eve" Killed The Queer Subtext, And All The Fun Along With It

Straight women are sublimating their rage against men by expressing their desire for starlets to strangle them or run them over with a car — but they don’t necessarily have the guts to scream, “Fist me, Sandra Oh.”

Natalie Adler

Kenya Has Upheld A Law That Punishes LGBT People For Having Sex

In a major blow to LGBT advocates, Kenya’s High Court said colonial-era laws outlawing gay sex should stay in place.

Tamerra Griffin

Here’s Why Authors All Tweet An Ugly Screenshot From The Same Websites

Hard-to-read screenshots of paywalled book industry websites dominate Literary Twitter.

Katie Notopoulos

The ACLU And Planned Parenthood Are Suing Alabama Over The State's New Abortion Law

The law's supporters have all but acknowledged that they’ll lose, but the goal is to force a Roe v. Wade showdown at the US Supreme Court.

Zoe Tillman

Trump Is Gutting Health Care Protections For Transgender People And Those Who Have Had Abortions

A draft rule released Friday would undo nondiscrimination protections in health care for those who have had abortions as well as transgender people.

Dominic Holden

Sofia Vergara Said She’ll Be Happy With Her “Modern Family” Character’s Ending

“Gloria has such a great life and such a beautiful family that I think anything that the writers have prepared for her, I’m going to be happy with.”

Matt Ford

Morning Update: June Is The End Of May

Factoring electability into the Democratic race, Facebook's bad content, your weekend longreads. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, May 24.

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

A New “Star Wars” Movie Based On “Knights Of The Old Republic” Is In The Works

BuzzFeed News has exclusively learned that Laeta Kalogridis is writing the KOTOR screenplay.

Kate Aurthur

The New Charges Against Julian Assange Are Unprecedented. Press Freedom Groups Say They're A Threat To All Journalists.

Legal experts say the new indictment against Assange is the first time the Justice Department has used the Espionage Act to charge a third party — not the government leaker — with publishing classified information.

Zoe Tillman

Rockefeller University Has Admitted “There Were Warning Signs” That A Doctor Sexually Abused Children For Decades

An attorney says the famed hospital missed many chances to protect young patients from Reginald Archibald, who is now dead.

Stephanie M. Lee

Tony Robbins Was Filmed Using Racial Slurs

Footage shows the self-help guru using the n-word repeatedly and describing how he responded to a skeptical participant by getting “in her face” and kissing her.

Jane Bradley

The ACLU Has Filed A $100 Million Claim Against The US Over The Fatal Border Patrol Shooting Of A Guatemalan Woman

Claudia Patricia Gómez, 20, was shot in the head after her group was confronted by a Border Patrol agent in Texas.

Adolfo Flores

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Is Facing 17 More Criminal Charges In The United States

A grand jury returned a new indictment against Assange adding charges related to his alleged conspiracy with Chelsea Manning to solicit and publish classified government information.

Zoe Tillman

Congress Reached A $19.1 Billion Disaster Aid Deal After Trump Caved On Border Funding

The deal includes close to $1 billion in funding for Puerto Rico that Trump had objected to. The Senate passed the bill Thursday and Trump is expected to sign it by the end of the week.

Paul McLeod

Amazon Filed A Patent To Record You Before You Even Say "Alexa"

Amazon Echo devices could one day capture, process, and record audio spoken before the wake word for commands like “Play some music, Alexa.”

Nicole Nguyen

Twitter Is Showing More Ads, And People Are Seeing Lots Of Weird Crap As A Result

One malicious campaign used false articles about Drake and the Weeknd to promote casinos.

Craig Silverman

The Only Latino Running For President Thinks Democrats' "Electability" Fight Is Missing The Point

“The worst thing we can do is to make assumptions or use some cookie-cutter formula about who ought to be the nominee of the party,” Julián Castro told BuzzFeed News.

Nidhi Prakash

The Justice Department Argues That Congress Can't Sue The Trump Administration At All

A federal judge in Washington, DC, heard arguments Thursday in House Democrats' lawsuit challenging Trump's plan to reprogram billions in federal funds to build a border wall.

Zoe Tillman

There’s So Much More Garbage On Facebook Than You Even Realize, And It’s Impossible To Keep Up

There are 1.56 billion daily active users on Facebook, and the platform disabled 2.19 billion fake accounts in the first quarter of 2019. Plus, more disturbing stats from the company's latest Community Standards Enforcement Report.

Davey Alba

Scientists Showed How More Guns Led To More Violent Crime

A Supreme Court case may soon create a constitutional right to freely carry a gun everywhere, but that would be a dangerous mistake to make, suggests a new study of violent crimes.

Dan Vergano